August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
"1837" Liberty - Not One Cent Fantasy. HT-40, Low-26, W-X-300a. Rarity-7. Copper. Plain Edge. Overstruck on a Hard Times Token, HT-48. AU Details--Environmental Damage (NGC).
27.9 mm. Coin alignment. An exceptional opportunity for the collecting community to have a chance to acquire a great Hard Times token rarity. Deep coppery-brown, the surfaces are quite rough and granular. Sharply struck, as expected. Struck over a Low-33, HT-48 Not One Cent token, obverse/obverse. This piece has in the past been called a HT-40/HT-42 overstrike, but it is not. Andrew Pollock noticed that the reverse lettering in the host's TRIBUTE is thick, that TRIBU all touch, and that the letters in CENT are stout, all unlike HT-42 but identical to HT-48. Extremely rare, with a total population of survivors of about five to seven from a posited mintage of 10 pieces. It looks like Mr. Ford's HT-40 may be the only one around that was not struck over a host token. NGC has elected to certify this as HT-40B, which refers to this type overstruck on an HT-42 Hard Times token. We disagree with this identification and have cataloged it as HT-40. NGC declined to change their attribution when given the opportunity. We leave any further attempts to the winning bidder.
From our (Stack's) sale of the Collections of James E. Dice & M. Lamar Hicks, July 2008, lot 3037. Earlier ex Byron White Collection, via Rossa & Tanenbaum, December 28, 1989.
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| Price realized | 2'200 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 1'500 USD |
